RE: hack attempt on my server...What do you do about this?

["Scot L. Harris" <webid cfl rr com>]

On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 23:13, L. Clayton Parker wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 22:13, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> > > 
> > > Better make that command:    
> > > 
> > > 	mail -u root 
> > > 
> > > or it won't work.
> > 
> > Not true.  I said to login or su to the root user before running the
> > mail command.
> > 
> Yes, you are right that it will work if you login. But,  if you simply
> su and then run the command: mail without switches, it will check the
> user account by default, not the root account.

You are correct.  I should have specified su - so you get the root users
environment as well so the mail command will work as expected.  I do
that by default when I use su.
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Scot L. Harris
webid cfl rr com

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